11th Street story 48

1951

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet featuring multiple black and white film strips. The sheet shows numerous small, individual frames capturing scenes from an urban environment. The frames contain various city scenes including streets, vehicles, and buildings. Some frames show a street scene with a van or a delivery truck driving down a narrow road. There is visible text in some frames indicating the marking "64" on a building facade. The contact sheet is numbered and appears to showcase a series of candid photographs. The film sprockets are visible around the edges of the frames and a large number "48" is scrawled in thick marker pen over the upper portion of the contact sheet.
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Provenance

The artist, New York; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Wikidata ID

Q64163354

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